Stovepipe-fastener



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C. VAN WOR-MER. STOVEPIPE PASTENER.

Patented June 29,1897.

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CHARLES VAN WORMER, OF AUBURN, INDIANA.

STOVEPlPE-FAS TEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 585,490, dated June 29, 1897. Application filed November 19, 1896. Serial No. 612,757. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES VAN WORMER, of Auburn, in the county of De Kalb and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stovepipe-Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in stovepipe-fasteners, and pertains to a fastener soconstructed that it is adapted to be attached to an ordinary thimble and detached therefrom, all of which will be fully described hereinafter, and referred to in the claims.

The object of my invention is to provide a stovepipe-fastener adapted to be attached to any stovepipe opening or thimble found in a building, whereby persons may take the fasteners with them when occupyinga building and remove them when vacating the building to be taken to another, the same being simple in construction and readily and easily operated.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view showing my invention applied to the wall of a building. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device complete.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, A represents the wall of a building having built therein a stovepipe opening or thimble B of the usual or any other desired construction.

My invention does not in any sense pertain to the thimble B or the stovepipe-opening in the wall, it being equally adapted for attachinent whether or not the stovepipe-opening be provided with a thimble.

My invention consists of a two-part clamping-collar O D, the two parts being concavoconvex in cross-section to form a hollow space between the adjacent face of the wall A and its outer surface for a clamping device, to be hereinafter fully described.

The lower ends of this two-part clamp are connected by means of a springplate G, though any other desired connection may be provided which will permit the upper ends of the two sections 0 and D to be moved toward and away from each other for releasing a stovepipe H.

The upper ends or sides of the two parts 0 and D of the collar are provided with the offset I, having registering openings through which a clamping screw J passes and by means of which the two parts ofthe collar are drawn together or permitted to be separated for the purpose of either releasing or clamping the stovepipe, as will be readily understood. The adjacent edges of the two parts 0 and D of the collar are rabbeted, as shown at K, so that they will move one within the other for the purpose of being drawn together and clamping the stovepipe.

The outer face of the collar is provided with an opening L, through which the stovepipe H passes, and at the inner side of this outer portion of the two parts 0 and D are the inwardly-extending perforated lugs M, having registering openings through which a bar N passes. Placed loosely or, if desired, rigidly upon the bar N is a collar P, having a depending ear or projection Q, through which a clamping-rod R passes, the outer end of the said rod being screw-threaded to receive a thumb-screw S and its inner end provided with an intermediately-pivoted bar T.

clamping and The pipe H is the ordinary stovepipe, and

this is provided at opposite sides with the longitudinal slots U, formed therein in any manner to straddle the transversely-extending bar N.

In operation the bar T, intermediately pivoted to the inner end of the clamping-rod R, is turned substantially parallel with R, or sufficiently so to enable it to be passed through the stovepipe-opening in the Wall, and then by passing the hand into the open ing the bar is'turned into either a vertical position, as shown in Fig. 1, or into a horizontal or any other position, so long as it extends across the opening and engages the inner face of the wall A of the building, as shown in Fig. 1. The collar is then placed in position with the screw-threaded end of the clamping-rod It through the ear U and the thumb-screwplaced thereon and tightened up. This holds the collar in position firmly and reliably. The rod N, which extends transverse the inner side of the two-part collar, is loose within the lugs M, so that the the barcollar may be spread apart or closed together. After being clamped in position against the Wall of the building the upper ends of the two parts 0 and D of the collar are then slightly separated to permit the passage therethrough of the stovepipe H, and then the upper ends are drawn together by the thumb-screw J, which clamps tightly the pipe in position in the thimble and prevents it from moving in or out while at the same time it absolutely closes any opening into the chimney to prevent the passage of smoke therethrough into the room.

The above construction is detachable, so that tenants may take the Stovepipe-fasteners around with them and place them in the building which they happen to occupy, and when leaving the building can readily detach the same and take them away with them to another building, thus making a portable pipefastener. The slots in the stovepipe H may be formed by a pair of scissors or taken to a tin ner, the same being readily and easily accomplished, as will be readily understood.

It will be seen that I have produceda very simple and cheap portable and removable Stovepipe fastener, which is readily and quickly detached for the purpose of securing or releasing the stovepipe in its opening or thimble, as the case may be.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A stovepipe-fastener comprising a two part collar concaved in cross-section, means for drawing the two parts of the collar together, a rod within the concave of the collar and supported thereby, the rod being longitudinally movable in relation to its support to allow the two parts of the collar to be drawn together, and a clamping-rod having one end supported by said rod and its opposite end connected with a cross-bar, the parts operating as described.

2. A stovepipe-fastening comprising a twopart collar having inwardly-extending lugs at its inner side, the said collar being concaved to form a space for the said lugs, arod supported loosely in said lugs, a collar upon the rod having a perforated ear or projection, a clamping-rod passing adjustably through the said ear, the opposite end of the rod having a cross-bar, substantially as described.

3. A Stovepipe-fastener comprising a collar having a transverse rod carried thereby, and the rod extending across the Stovepipe-opening, the opposite end of the rod attached to a fastening at the opposite side of the Wall, in combination with a longitudinally-movable stovepipe having longitudinal slots in opposite sides thereof to receive the rod and permit the pipe a longitudinal movement in relation thereto, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES VAN \VORMER.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH LINK, CHARLES M. BROWN; 

